Digital Week in Review: Tips for Shorter Tweets, Apple Gets Fined, Link Instagram to Facebook and Year End Infographic

In this week’s Digital Week in Review: Pardot releases an infographic on tips for shorter Tweets, Apple gets fined, Facebook is encouraging users to connect with Instagram, and an infographic of 2013’s Best of Social Media.

Tips for Shorter Tweets

Ever have trouble fitting everything you want to say in a single Tweet? Twitter’s 140 character limit can prove to be difficult when you have a lot to say, making every character matter. Pardot has created an infographic with a bunch of tips on how to make short and sweet Tweets.

Apple Fined by Taiwan Fair Trade Commission

Apple has been fined NT$20,000,000 by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission, which works out to about $667,000 USD for trying to influence Taiwanese iPhone Prices. If Apple does not comply, they will be fined an additional NT$50,000,000, equivalent to around $1,600,000 USD.

Apple allegedly signed off on pricing plans for Chunghwa Telecom, FarEasTone Telecmmunications, and Taiwan Mobile. These are three of Taiwan’s largest telecom companies. According to Taiwanese law, the companies should be free from corporate interference once the rights to distribute Apple devices has been purchased.

Samsung has also previously been fined by Taiwanese laws for running advertisements claiming that the Galaxy Y Duos had an auto-focusing camera with a flash when it in fact, it did not, and also for running an astroturfing campaign to attack Taiwanese competitor HTC’s products online. Samsung faced fines for NT$300,000 which is roughly just over $10,000 USD.

Facebook Taking Steps to Encourage Linking Account With Instagram

Facebook is urging users and page administrators to connect their Instagrams to their Facebook accounts in prompts like the ones below. However, it is being reported that it is not actually allowing the option to sync all of a users Instagram pages to Facebook.

Best of Social Media 2013

From Vine being introduced in January, to Instagram launching videos and Instagram Direct, Twitter’s IPO, and the popularity of Snapchat, 2013 has been a big year for social media. Infographic Promotion has created an infographic for all things social media in 2013.

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